Method means that arrangement of subject matter which makes it most effective in use. Never is method something outside of the material.
John DeweySince education is not a means to living, but is identical with the operation of living a life which is fruitful and inherently significant, the only ultimate value which can be set up is just the process of living itself. And this is not an end to which studies and activities are subordinate means; it is the whole of which they are ingredients.
John DeweyIf there is one conclusion to which human experience unmistakably points it is that democratic ends demand democratic methods for their realization.
John DeweyIn brief, the function of knowledge is to make one experience freely available to other experiences.
John DeweyThat education is not an affair of "telling" and being told, but an active and constructive process, is a principle almost as generally violated in practice as conceded in theory. Is not this deplorable situation due to the fact that the doctrine is itself merely told? It is preached; it is lectured; it is written about.
John Dewey